Just learned that Abelardo Morell will be giving a lecture at the San Francisco Art Institute next week.
http://www.sfai-art.com/database/this_Week_at_SFAI_detail.asp?id_event=614 A LECTURE BY ABELARDO MORELL, photographer May 6, 2002 7:30 pm SFAI Lecture Hall 800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA Innovative Cuban-American photographer Abelardo Morell will speak about work that involves turning rooms into giant camera obscuras during a lecture presented in partnership with the SF Camerawork and Photo Alliance. After concentrating on street photography for several years, Morell gained notoriety in the mid-1980s for turning domestic spaces into large camera obscuras. Morell's photographs capture the spaces while the inverted landscape of the room's exterior is projected onto its walls. The artist continues to test the limits of this new method, and has photographed well-known landmarks including New York City's Times Square and Wyoming's Grand Tetons Mountains. While in town, Morell will create his first San Francisco image. The lecture is free to the public. Morell has participated in group exhibitions and solo shows from New York to Tokyo. His work is included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York); The Art Institute of Chicago; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and many other institutions. Morell's photographs are featured in numerous books, among them Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Abelardo Morell: Face to Face; Photographs at the Gardner Museum; and A Camera in a Room: Photographs by Abelardo Morell, from the series Photographers at Work: A Smithsonian Series. Morell has received prestigious grants from the Cintas Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation, has taught at the Massachusetts College of Art and has held artist residencies at the Boston Athenaeum and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
